Improved device for suspending and detaching articles



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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CQNCERN;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. LANE, of. GVREENPOINTyin thel county of Kings, 'and State of New York,

have invented a new and useful Hooking Device for Suspending and Detaching Various Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of my hooking device, and

Figure 2 a plan of the saine, omitting the handle. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object suspending and detaching, with increased facility, various articles at or .fromheights inconvenient of reach by the hand, and consists of a novel instrument of portable character, or

stick h-aving novel attachments or provisions, for suspending, by loose hooks, articles of different kinds, or detaching them at pleasure, and will be found of great advantage to dry-goods merchants, grocers, and others, said device not being restricted tokany one particular description of'wares or articles.

Referring to the accompanying drawing', A represents the stick or handle of the device, of` any suitable length, and carrying at its upper end av shank,'B, having cast or formed .on its .top a hook receiving a socket, C, open at'its top, and, say lowerend -in front, to allow of the entry within it from above of the body of a hook, D, and hold or retention of the same when lifting any article suspended on its point, but admitting of the detachment` of the hook with its article on a nail or otberprojection, by simply drawing down or away the entire device from the hook, which is free to slip out of the arms a ofthe socket C, or rather the latter .from the hook. The sbank'B is also provided with a prong or horn, E, for, when required, entering the body'of thc hook D, to detachfit andthe article carried by it from the nail or projection; andsaid shank yet further furnished with a Stringer or keeper, F, for any'number of loose hooks, D, and which may be ,of bar or rod form, branching upwards from or near the base of the shank, and left free above for entry over it, through an opening, b, of 'the hooks, one 'by one. This bar or rod formation may be m'ore or less elastic, so as to require some little pressure inwards before the hooks can either be entered through the openingb or be taken oil" said rod, as required, thuspreventing their casual detachment cr loss from the keeper.

` It would be impossible, or at least is unnecessary, here to enumerate all the purposes or uses to which a hooking instrument of this character might be applied, the convenience of the same for suspending and detaching various articles to or from. heights beyond the ordinary reach'of the band being obvious, and as the instrument may carry its own supplyof hooks, which may be slipped off from it one by one, as required, this convenience is increased, the hooks as they aretaken from it being entered at their points in or otherwise hitched on to the article to be'suspended, and the body of the hooks passed down into or between the arms of the socket C, and then lifted to their nail or place of suspension by raising the whole instrument. And equally obvious is the action or use ofthe detaching horn E,`previously described. The whole instrument, with the"v exception of the handle, which may be of wood, may be got upcheap by casting it in a single piece, or be otherwise suitably constructed', and be made light or portable for ready use by the hand.

What I here claim, and desire to-secure by Letters Patent, is 1. A. hooking rod or device having ahook-receiving socket, O, for elevation of the hook to its place of suspension and clearance therefrom when suspended, substantially'as specified.

2. In combination with the hook-receiving socket C, the hook-detaching horn E, both carried by a rod orl handle, essentially as described. p v

3. The combination with a hook-suspending device of a hook-keeper, F, substantially as specified. 4. An instrument or deviceconsisting cfa hook-receiving or carry-socket, hook-detaching horn; andhookkeeper, all formed of one and the sume piece, and attached `to a coinmon stock 'or handle, essentially as herein set forth.

WILLIAM C. LANE.

Witnesses:

J. W. CooMBs, A. Ln CLERC. 

